Originally Posted by LPCZ
Well, okay, insisting on 100% accuracy is unrealistic for anyone. That's not even an acceptable thing in most adult occupations (obviously air traffic controllers, hostage negotiators, and neurosurgeons are excused now wink ).

While it may be true that "error-free" is within the grasp of someone who has a fast processing speed (because they can afford do the assigned task two or even four times over?) that kind of encourages an unhealthy set of OCD-like behaviors, first of all. How many times SHOULD one check over that written paragraph for grammatical errors? How many times is enough reworking of that physics problem?

FWIW, I just wanted to clarify what I'd posted about having my dd who makes careless errors because she flies through work at warp speed and doesn't notice things - we aren't asking her to check and re-check her work. I do think it's reasonable (and a good habit to get into) to check your work once over, and I don't think checking once is going to turn a non-perfectionist child into a perfectionist. Although it's next to impossible to achieve 100% in any type of endeavor (realistically) the reality is that in the working world it *is* important to check your work - would you not want to be sure you had the correct prescription when you pick it up? Would you want the engineer who designed the building your office is up on not to double-check to make sure he didn't accidentally drop a digit somewhere before you ride the elevator up to the 10th floor? Maybe it's the profession I'm in, but checking work once is routine. And way back in school... we don't want to think it, but grades do count and test scores do count, and checking our work once helps - for most kids. (Not necessarily my dysgraphic kid but that's another thread entirely :))

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